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# Wang Fosong

Wang Fosong (Chinese: 王佛松; pinyin: Wáng Fósōng; 23 May 1933 – 31 December 2022) was a Chinese polymer chemist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wang was a member of the 7th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a member of the Standing Committees of the 8th and 9th National People's Congress.

## Biography

Wang was born into a family of farming background in Xingning County, Guangdong, on 23 May 1933. In 1951, he was admitted to Wuhan University, where he majored in the Department of Chemistry. After graduating in 1955, he was sent to study at the Soviet Academy of Sciences on government scholarships, obtaining a vice-doctorate degree in 1960.
Wang returned to China in 1960 and that same year became a member of the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He moved up the ranks to become assistant director in 1984 and director in 1985. He rose to become vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988, a post he kept until 1994.
On 31 December 2022, Wang died in Beijing, at the age of 89.

## Honours and awards

* State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
* 1985 State Natural Science Award (Special)
* 1988 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
* 1991 State Natural Science Award (Third Class)
* 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
* 2000 Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
* 2002 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
# Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ

Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ (born 1970s) is a Kenyan writer, who has lived and worked in Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Finland. She is the founder and former director of the Helsinki African Film Festival (HAFF). Also a political analyst, she is a member of the editorial board of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Culture and Society, and has been a columnist for the Finnish development magazine Maailman Kuvalehti. Among journals and newspapers in which her work has appeared are The Herald (Zimbabwe), The Daily Nation, Business Daily, Pambazuka News and Chimurenga. She is the author of a novel published in 2014 and a contributor to anthologies including New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (2019, edited by Margaret Busby), Nairobi Noir (2020, edited by Peter Kimani).

## Biography

Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ was born in Kenya into a family of writers that includes her father, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and her brother Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ. She studied for a BA in political science and sociology at New York University and holds an MFA from the University of Houston. She later worked as an editor for the American publishing house Africa World Press, and has served in other editorial positions, such as on the editorial board of the journal Matatu.
After completing her studies she spent time in Eritrea, before moving to Zimbabwe, where she lived for five years and worked as an editor as well as production manager, also travelling during these years to different African countries, including South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. In 2007, she and her Finnish partner moved to Helsinki, where she founded the Helsinki African Film Festival (HAFF).
Wanjikũ has written plays and short stories, and her first novel, The Fall of Saints, was published by Atria Books in 2014. Her short story "Hundred Acres of Marshland" featured in 2019's New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and she was also a contributor to Nairobi Noir, edited by Peter Kimani (2020). Among other publications in which her short stories and essays have appeared are Houston Noir, The Barelife Review, St. Petersburg Review, Wasafiri, Auburn Avenue, Cunning Folk Magazine, and Chimurenga.
Wanjikũ's second novel, Seasons in Hippoland, was published by Seagull Press in 2021, characterised by one reviewer as a "dreamlike coming-of-age novel ... about the power of storytelling".

## Writings
### Books

* The Fall of Saints, Atria Books, 2014. ISBN 9781476714936
* Seasons of Hippoland, Seagull Press, 2021. ISBN 9780857428943
# Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Class C

The Class C (6.5 to 8 metres) was one of three motorboating classes contested on the Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Nations could enter up to 3 boats. In addition to the length minimum and maximum, the boats had to weight at least 800 kilograms (without fuel or crew), have "a total piston area not exceeding that represented by four cylinders each of 106 mm. bore," and "comply with the rules of the International Sporting Club of Monaco in regard to cruisers."
The first race of 29 August 1908 was the small class of boats. Gyrinus, which had won the B class the day before, appeared again. This time her competition was Sea Dog. Again, however, Gyrinus was the only boat to finish, as Sea Dog experienced engine problems and had to be towed off the course.

## Results

| Place | Boat | Boaters | Nation | Time |
| | Gyrinus | John Field-Richards Bernard Boverton Redwood Isaac Thomas Thornycroft | Great Britain | Unknown |
| – | Sea Dog | Thomas Weston Warwick Wright | Great Britain | Did not finish |
# Warren Farm

Warren Farm may refer to:
* Warren Farm, Southall, London, UK
* Warren Farm, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, UK
# Wasaga Beach Transit

Wasaga Beach Transit is a public transportation system for the resort town of Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada. Using municipally-owned minibuses, it was originally operated by Georgian Coach Lines from 2008 to 2014 and then contracted to Sinton-Landmark. Service expanded from one route which was started in July, 2008 to two in the summer of 2009, because the bus system grew faster than anyone expected. On November 21, 2016, Wasaga Beach Transit got a connection with the new Clearview Public Transit, which runs to the nearby community of Stayner, and on August 6, 2019, the service also received a connection with the also-new Simcoe County LINX system. The latter change replaced the old Collingwood-Wasaga Link bus running between Wasaga Beach and Collingwood, and also provides transit service to the City of Barrie.
Services for Wasaga Beach Transit operate in a loop from the old Wasaga Stars Arena to 70th Street every hour from 7 AM to 9 PM, running eastbound and westbound. On November 6, 2023, the portion of Route 1 between Walmart and Archer Road was changed to an on-demand service format, with booking required in advance.
When the service was introduced in 2008, the Town of Wasaga Beach held a contest to help design the logo for the transit system. A logo depicting a sun and a wave with the slogan 'Ride the Wave' was chosen as the contest winner.
In 2024, buses #146 and #147 were redecorated with special beach-themed wraps and roof-mounted surfboards to commemorate the Town of Wasaga Beach's 50th anniversary.

## Bus routes

* Route 1 - Walmart to Lyons Court (On-demand service extends east to Archer Road)
* Route 2 - (Old) Wasaga Stars Arena to 70th Street
The town is also served by two Simcoe County LINX routes: Wasaga Beach to Collingwood (#4) or Barrie (#2); and Clearview Public Transit, all which connect at the Real Canadian Superstore. There are no free transfers to/from Wasaga Beach Transit with these services.
# XDV

XDV or xdv may refer to:
* Diazo (software), a website theming tool, previously named xdv.
* Extended DVI, see Device independent file format
# Théâtre de la Reine

The Théâtre de la Reine (Queen's Theater) ou Théâtre du Trianon (Trianon Theater) is a theater built for Queen Marie-Antoinette by the architect Richard Mique from June 1778 to July 1779. It is located in the grounds of the Petit Trianon, in the park of the Palace of Versailles, hidden between the tree tunnel of the French Garden and the tall trees of the Alpine Garden. The exterior of the building, which looks like an outbuilding, contrasts with the sophisticated decoration of its interior, which is adorned with blue silk and velvet and gilded sculptures, yet is all pretense. It was inaugurated in 1780, ten years after the opening of the "Grand Théâtre", as the Royal Opera of Versailles was then called.
This small comedy hall was a secret place for the Queen, far from the court of Versailles and its torments. She herself came to play comedy, with a troupe reduced to her intimate entourage, in memory of her taste, since childhood, for theater and declamation. The authors in fashion were performed, some of them, such as Beaumarchais, were even forbidden at court. The stage, twice as large as the hall, as well as the machinery, complex and of the most modern, are the work of the machinist Boullet, of the Paris Opera.
The theater was spared during the French Revolution, as it was considered worthless. Several queens and empresses, Marie-Louise, Marie-Amélie and Eugénie, appropriated the place in the course of the 19th century, which became a sort of women's privilege. It has been assigned to the museum, but is rarely visited and, after several restoration campaigns, has remained intact to this day, including its machinery, an almost unique example of the eighteenth century.

## Gallery

* Entrance
* Ceiling
* Interior
* Interior
* Interior
* Cottage set for Le Roi and le fermier
* Exterior
# Well cluster

A well cluster, also referred to as a monitoring well cluster, consists of multiple co-located monitoring wells that are constructed with intakes (well screens) at different depths in the subsurface. The purpose of a well cluster is to provide groundwater samples from discrete depths at approximately the same location, and/or to measure the vertical pressure gradient to calculate the vertical component of groundwater flow. Water levels can be measured in each individual monitoring well, providing vertical profiles of groundwater pressure (hydraulic head). The pressure difference between the groundwater table and the potentiometric surface in a submerged well can. A shallow well is used to measure the water table, and is equilibrated to atmospheric pressure. A deeper well, or piezometer, measured the potentiometric surface, determined by the water level observed when submerged and sealed. The associated change in pressure between the shallow well and piezometer, and the corresponding length, usually taken as the distance between the center of the two well screens, can be applied to Darcy's Law to calculate the vertical groundwater flow.
Well clusters are different from nested wells in that each monitoring well is constructed in a separate borehole, as opposed to multiple well casings in a single borehole which is the case with nested wells). A key advantage of a well cluster over a nested well is that there is less potential for vertical leakage and hydraulic short-circuiting because reliable annular seals are installed in each separate borehole in the cluster. However, well clusters require drilling multiple boreholes, which results in higher construction costs compared to nested wells. Economical alternatives to well clusters are multilevel groundwater monitoring systems, also referred to as engineered nested wells.
# Sidney Knott

Sidney Knott (12 August 1933 – 8 December 2020) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket for Border from 1951 to 1964.
A fast bowler, Sidney Knott was a fixture in the Border team for ten years after making his first-class debut in the 1951–52 season at the age of 18. He had his most successful season in 1952–53, when he took 36 wickets in six matches at an average of 17.19. He also took his best innings figures in that season, 7 for 34 against North Eastern Transvaal, and his best match figures, 4 for 54 and 6 for 50 against Griqualand West.
Against Natal in East London in 1959–60 he took 5 for 40, bowling unchanged through the innings, to help dismiss Natal for 90 on the first day. Border, however, were then dismissed for totals of 16 and 18, Knott being one of the three batsmen who made a pair.
# Education Minister of the Gaza Strip

The Education Minister of the Gaza Strip is an office, created in June 2007, following the Fatah-Hamas conflict in Gaza and split between Palestinian cabinets in Gaza Strip and West Bank. The first Education Minister of the Hamas Authority in the Gaza Strip was named Osama al-Muzayni, part of the Hamas government of June 2007.
The office of the education ministry in Gaza was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, part of offensive Operation Cast Lead.
In 2012, during Hamas government reshuffle, Osama al-Muzayni kept his position. Al-Muzayni was reported killed during 2023 Israel–Hamas war.

## Education Ministers (Gaza Strip)

| # | Name | Party | Time in Office |
| 1 | Osama al-Muzayni (Part of Ismail Haniyeh's cabinet, which began de facto control over the Gaza Strip in June 2007) | Hamas | June 2007–2014 |
# Ngân Thủy

Ngân Thủy is a commune (xã) and village in Lệ Thủy District, Quảng Bình Province, in Vietnam.
# Nicholas Belfield Dennys

Nicholas Belfield Dennys (25 January 1839 – 5 December 1900) was a British civil servant and journalist in China. He studied Chinese folklore and wrote several studies on the language and culture.

## Biography

Dennys joined the civil department of the British Navy in 1855. After seeing action at the Battle of Suomenlinna in 1855 he received a Baltic Medal and resigned from the Navy to join the Consular Service in China in 1863. Here he learned Chinese and resigned to own and take up editorship of the newspaper China Mail. He edited the newspaper until 1876 while also serving as curator of the Hong Kong museum and library.
In 1877 he became assistant-protector of Chinese at Singapore and Justice of Peace for the Straits Settlements. While in Singapore he served as honorary curator for the Raffles Museum. He was posted magistrate in the Federated Malay States in 1889 but poor health forced him to resign. In 1900 he was operated for a tumour but died following the procedure. Dennys wrote several books including The Treaty Ports of China and the Folklore of China and is considered a pioneer of Sinological studies. He also invented an anti-fouling paint (Zocus) and a system of electrical lighting known as the Dennys-Cuff system.
# Nick Granato

Nick Granato (born July 18, 1963) is an American Folk Singer/Songwriter, Winner of the Stonewall Society's Pride in The Arts Award(2), 2007 Artist of The Year and 2007 CD of The Year "Outside The Lines". No. 1 CD for 2007 on the Outvoice Charts. Two No. 1 radio singles "My Ordinary Life & "Color Outside The Lines" on Sirius Satellite Radio August 2007/September 2007

## Early career

Nick Granato spent his early career mostly as a songwriter in Nashville, he has had nearly 400 songs recorded by numerous artists including Pamala Stanley, Heirline, Juice Newton and Buffalo Rome. Nick's music has been utilized by many organizations including Susan G. Komen for the Cure, The United Way, and the US Olympic Committee.
Nick served as Director of Music Publishing for Chestnut Mound Music/Cal IV Christian (1989–1994) – (1998–2000). and as VP of Gateway Entertainment Inc.(1994-1998), in Nashville as well as a signed songwriter for many different publishing houses through the years.
Nick Granato's first album, Sun Dance was released on the indie Label Song Harbor in 2003. The CD of 12 original Florida Style music contained a duet with Stella Parton and a featured appearance by Nashville Now singer Darlene Austin. The CD received prominent favor at Folk radio, excellent reviews, garnering several award nominations and selling admirably for a first release.
Nick's second album Plastic Pink Flamingos was released on Song Harbor in 2005. The CD contained 13 original Florida Style songs. The title song was seriously considered as a new State song for the State Of Florida. Nick supported and promoted the CD releases by touring American coastal communities. This CD also contains the super popular song Survive.

## Outside The Lines

In 2007 Nick Granato released his 3rd CD Outside The Lines on Song Harbor. 13 Tracks of original Folk/Rock style songs, infused with political and social commentary. The CD featured prominent Nashville Studio musicians, Gene Rabbai, Steve Cummings, Donny Skaggs Phil Lister and Doug Kahan. Outside The Lines produced 6 No. 1 songs and earned Nick 5 Pride In The Arts Award Nominations, winning the top award, Artist Of The Year and CD Of The Year. In 2007–2008 Nick toured the United States, Canada, Mexico and Hawaii.

## Discography

2009 "In Real Life" – Song Harbor
2007 Outside The Lines – Song Harbor
2005 Plastic Pink Flamingos – Song Harbor
2003 Sun Dance – Song Harbor
1988 Up Against The Wall - Spiritwind

## Future

A new CD In Real Life was released in October 2009. In late December 2009, Nick collapsed on stage during a performance in Miami's South Beach. Nick was diagnosed with a painful neuro-muscular disorder. Unable to play his guitar or perform live, Nick was forced to cancel his scheduled national tour to promote his new "In Real Life" CD, and take time to consult with his Doctors and rehabilitate. To date, Doctors have still been unable to make a conclusive diagnosis and Nick has not been able to resume performing. Nick continues to write songs and represent other song catalogs. In 2013 he started up a PR/Media/Radio Production company called Cosmic Slug Creative Universe.
# Nicholas Bourke

Nicholas Bourke (died 11 December 1771) was an Anglo-Irish planter in Jamaica who emigrated to the island around 1740 and acquired significant land-holdings there. He was prominent in the House of Assembly of Jamaica from the later 1750s and speaker in 1770.
Bourke argued in favour of the rights of Assemblymen of Jamaica during a dispute with the governor, William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, over who should finance the defence of the colony. Eventually, Bourke won his argument that the British government should bear the cost of defence, and Lyttelton was recalled.
Bourke is thought to have been the author of a pamphlet, The Privileges of the Island of Jamaica Vindicated, that was published in Kingston in 1765 and in London in 1766.
Bourke died in Jamaica on 11 December 1771.
# Nibourette

Nibourette is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alex Nibourette (born 1983), Seychellois footballer
* Roy Nibourette, Seychellois politician
# Nicholas J. Hoff

Nicholas J. Hoff (January 3, 1906, in Magyaróvár, Hungary – August 4, 1997) was a Hungarian-born American engineer specializing in aeronautics and astronautics, which he taught at Stanford University.

## Biography

Hoff spent his adolescence in Budapest, where he went to the same high school that had been attended by Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and John von Neumann. After high school, he enrolled at ETH Zurich, where he studied under Aurel Stodola. He graduated with an engineering degree in 1928.
In 1938, Hoff moved to America, in order to study solid mechanics under Stephen Timoshenko, receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1942. His plans to return to Hungary were interrupted by the onset of the Second World War. In 1940, Hoff joined the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn as an instructor in aeronautical engineering, eventually becoming a full professor in 1946 and head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1950. He subsequently joined the faculty of Stanford University in the fall of 1957.
He served as the chair of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (1955).

## Awards and honors

* Worcester Reed Warner Medal, 1967
* Theodore von Karman Medal, 1972
* ASME Medal, 1974
* Daniel Guggenheim Medal, 1983
* Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
* Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, 1987
# Nicholas Strange (rower)

Nicholas Strange (born 15 August 1966) is a British rower. He competed in the men's lightweight double sculls event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Since retiring from rowing Nicholas has coached the British Rowing team at Beijing and London 2012 and Abingdon School J15C VIII, and has returned to his university hobby of studying large chests.
# Nicole Riegel

Nicole Riegel is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

## Early life and education

Riegel grew up in Jackson, Ohio, a town in the Appalachian foothills. . She joined the Army National Guard and was stationed at Fort Jackson, SC. After the military, she attended Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where she assisted and studied under acclaimed documentarian Julia Reichert, graduating in 2009. She attended UCLA film school UCLA, graduating with an MFA.
Riegel's first film was Holler (2020), starring Jessica Barden and distributed by IFC Films. The plot follows a seventeen-year-old Appalachian girl growing up in poverty who scavenges scrap metal from local shuttered factories to raise the money she needs to attend college.
IFC Films acquired distribution rights to her second film, Dandelion, which was due to start filming in Cincinnati and South Dakota in late 2022. It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10, 2024 and was released in the United States on July 12, 2024.

## Recognition

Riegel was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature 2021 for her debut film, Holler. She won a National Board of Review Award for Top 10 Independent Films 2021. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of their 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2014. In 2020, Variety named her one of 10 Directors to Watch. Vulture called her a "major new directorial talent". Variety said Holler "positions Riegel as the Debra Granik of her generation". Holler was set to world premiere at SXSW Film Festival before the festival was cancelled in 2020. Holler premiered later that year internationally at TIFF Toronto International Film Festival and in France at the Deauville Film Festival. The film continued its festival circuit at Leiden Film Festival (Netherlands), Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia), Nashville Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival.
# Nick Carr (album)

Nick Carr is the debut album by Greek singer-songwriter and record producer Nikos Karvelas under the stage name of Nick Carr, released independently in 1985. It is all English-language material.
# Nick Carrafa

Nick Carrafa is an Australian actor best known for his television roles as Tony Romeo on the Australian soap opera Neighbours and Alfredo on the comedy series Acropolis Now.

## Career

Carrafa began his career with a guest role in the series Special Squad, before guest starring on Prisoner. He then joined the cast of Neighbours, playing Tony Romeo from episode 628.
Carrafa has appeared in many television series and theatre productions.

## Personal life

Carrafa met his wife Fiona Corke before appearing on Neighbours in 1987.

## Roles

* Special Squad (Camilleri 1984)
* Burke & Wills (1985)
* Prisoner (Mick Warner 1986)
* The Power, The Passion (Mick Casalla 1989)
* Neighbours (Tim Duncan 1985; Tony Romeo 1987–1988; Peter Hannay 1999, 2016)
* Blue Heelers (Anthony Kelvin 1996, Phil Grant 2001, Blaine O'Connor 2005)
* Acropolis Now (Alfredo 1989)
* Phoenix (Sergio Diego 1987)
* State Coroner (George Cardillo 1997–1998)
* Law of the Land (Neil 1999)
* The Secret Life of Us (Bob 2002)
* Stingers (Dave Delamonte 2002)
* Scooter: Secret Agent (Garner/Agent X-81 2005)
# Nicolas Hosch

Nicolas Hosch was a Luxembourgish syndicalist labor leader, who served as the General Commissioner of the Lëtzebuerger Scouten.
In 1979, Hosch was awarded the 136th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, at the World Scout Conference in Birmingham in 1979, becoming the first Luxembourger to be honored with this Scout distinction.
# Michael Hampton (disambiguation)

Michael Hampton (born 1956) is an American funk/rock guitarist.
Michael Hampton may also refer to:
* Michael Hampton (punk musician), hardcore punk guitarist from Washington, D.C.
* Michael Hampton, better known under his stage name DJ Magic Mike
* Mike Hampton (Michael William Hampton, born 1972), American baseball player
* Mike Hampton (baseball coach) (Michael Anthony Hampton, born 1972), American college baseball coach